Ticker attachment.



UNTT D STATES Patented August 11, 190 3.

ROBERT D. WESTOOTE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

T-ICKERR ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,922, dated August11, 1903. Application filed August 18 1902. Serial No. 119,999. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT D. WESTOOTE, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticker Attachments,of which the following is a full and complete specification, such aswill enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

The object of this invention is to provide a stock-ticker, news-ticker,or other machine of this class with a guide and support for the tapewhich will hold the tape in a horizontal or substantially horizontalposition after it leaves the machine, so that the characters or printedmatter thereon may be conveniently seen before the tape falls into thebasket or other receptacle prepared therefor.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in Which- Figure 1 is a side view of an ordinarystockticker machine provided withrmy improvement; Fig. 2, a plan view ofthe guide and support for the tape, and Fig. 3 a front view thereof.

In the drawings forming part of this specification I have shown at a anordinary stockticker machine, which is placed on a suitable base orsupport I) and which is provided with the usual arm or bracket 0, inwhich is mounted a tape-roller d. The machine proper consists of a basea having the usual glass globe e, and within the globe e, as indicatedat f, is an ordinary stock or other ticker. top of the base portion a?of the ticker is provided with an annular flange or rim a having at thebacka notch or recess a through which the tape 01 passes as it entersthe machine, and at the front, as shown at 0. a small notch or recessthrough which the tape 01 passes as it leaves the machine.

In the practice of my invention I provide a guide and support 9 for thetape and over which the tape passes as it leaves the machine, and thisguide and support g, as shown in the The drawings, consists of atopplate or member 9 and a brace g ,which is secured to the base or.support I) at g ,and a triangular inner member g, secured to the'memberg at 9 to the base I) at g and to the top member or plate g at 9 The topmember or plate g of the tape guide and support is provided withvertically-arranged side flanges g", between which the tape passes, andin the outer end thereof with a transverse slot or opening h, throughwhich the tape passes and from which it falls into a basket orother'receptacle z'. The inner end of the top member or plate 9 of thetape guide and support is segmental in form, as shown at h in Fig. 2, sothatit willfit closely adjacent to the base a of the machine and underthe flange or rim or, and as the tape leaves the machine it passes outonto the guide and support and passes longitudinally thereover,and theend thereof is turned down through the transverse slot or opening it. Bymeans of the flanges g and the slot or opening it the tape is alwaysheld in proper position on the guide and support, and this guide andsupport, or the top member or plate thereof, may be of any desiredlength, and by means thereof the tape as it leaves the machine is heldin such a position that the charactersthereon or the printed matterthereon may be conveniently and easily read by a number of people.

My invention is not limited to the form or construction of the guide andsupport nor to the method of connecting the same with the machine, theonly object in this connection being to provide a guide and support forthe tape which will hold the tape in a horizontal or substantiallyhorizontal position after it leaves the machine and before it drops intothe basket or other receptacle.

- Having fully described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

An attachment for stock-ticker machines of the usual constructioncomprising a bracket adapted to be secured to the support of the Imachine below the slot through which the I ence of the subscribingwitnesses, this 16th tape issues, and said support being also proday ofAugust, 1902.

vided with side flan 'es, and at the end thereof with a transverse slotor opening, substan- ROBERT WESTOOTE' 5 tially as shown and described.Witnesses:

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as F. A. STEWART,

my invention I have signed my name, in pres- J. O. LARSEN.

